RECORD RELEASE PARTY
WHO: Carnage Asada
WHAT: Live performance
WHEN: Friday, August 23, 2024 at 7pm PT
WHERE: Anna Broome Room at Art Share L.A.
801 E 4th Pl, Los Angeles, CA 90013
WHY: Record release party. All ages. Free.
Experimental Los Angeles group Carnage Asada are celebrating their album release on Friday, August 23 at the Anna Broome Room at Art Share L.A. (801 E 4th Pl, Los Angeles, CA 90013). It is an all ages venue and all are welcome. Carnage Asada are an integral part of the tapestry and history of the SoCal punk scene. Featuring members who’ve played in bands such as Alice Bag Band, the BellRays, Saccharine Trust, and Legal Weapon. The new album titled, Head On A Platter (Historical Records) will be available as CD, vinyl LP and as digital download.
“Carnage Asada started as a solid, straightforward, intense punk outfit but they have evolved into a complex, energetic punk jazz orchestra.” – Alice Bag
“Carnage Asada…are one of the most original sounding bands I’ve ever worked with. Their one of a kind mashup of street poetry, psychedelia, and dada, augmented by a thunderous rock beat, tears up the stage everywhere they play, and is an instant crowd pleaser.” – Geza X
“I saw them at the Tower Bar in City Heights my neighborhood.
I hear Los Angeles in the music, bus stops, street scenes, brown punks on dope. D.U.I? D.W.I? Reckless endangerment, I thought of Travis Bickle ready to explode.
I thought of walking through my trash filled alley on the way to the liquor store to spend the last of the rent money on booze. Waking up in Rosarito hung over on tequila.
I thought of Keroac on the Steve Allen show, and Bukowski who said, ‘I like desperate men who lead desperate lives!’
Stories lived and shared right here right now, not sitting on the couch dreaming of fame!
I thought of that one creative writing teacher who told me to keep writing.
It’s rare but it happens sometimes, that night at the Tower Bar I was right where I was supposed to be.” – Javier Escovedo, the Zeros
Watch their 30 Year Retrospective, filmed live at Art Share in downtown Los Angeles in early 2024
The three founding members in this line-up (David Jones, George Murillo, Dave Travis,) originally coalesced in the early 1980s while attending junior high school together, bonding over punk rock bands like Black Flag, X, and The Germs. By 1993, Carnage Asada was officially formed. The band has gigged regularly since then playing virtually every legendary L.A. venue including Al’s Bar, Mr. T’s Bowl, Bar Deluxe, and Travis’ many self-produced stages including early generator parties and the club he owned called Café NELA (2013-2019). The group has been featured in the L.A.Weekly, The L.A. Beat, Flipside, Sparkplug Magazine, Razorcake and more. They appeared in the 2018 documentary Tales of the American about the history of Al’s Bar and the American Hotel.
The band has shared the stage with acts such as Mike Watt, the Gears, Sylvia Juncosa, Cliff Roman’s Weirdos, Saccharine Trust, Mecolodiacs, Fatso Jetson, Backbiter, and Legal Weapon. Carnage Asada will appeal to fans of The Minutemen, James Brown, Curtis Mayfield, Black Flag, The Stooges, Hawkwind, Captain Beefheart, War and The Mothers of Invention.
Carnage Asada performance itinerary (more dates TBA):
Friday, August 23 at Anna Broome Room/Artshare in Los Angeles, CA / Record Release Party
Friday, August 30 at Supply and Demand (opening for The Zeros) in Long Beach, CA
Head On A Platter was recorded at Wasatch Studios in Los Angeles, California, and engineered by David O. Jones and his son Sebastian Jones.
Head On A Platter track listing:
1. Black Trench Coat
2. Chinese Lady Aluminum Foil
3. Head on a Platter
4. Little Fat Princess
5. Psychedelic Experiment
6. Germs Reborn
7. Norteño
8. Come on Baby
9. Listen to the Whispers
10. Septiembr
11. Two Little Brothers from East L.A.
12. Blood of Thorns
Left to right: Tony Fate, guitar; Steve Reed, drums; George Murillo (front middle kneeling) lyrics and vocals; Dave Travis cello; David O. Jones, bass. Band photo by Anthony Solis.
Carnage Asada is:
Tony Fate – Guitar
David O. Jones – Bass
Vince Meghrouni – Woodwinds, Percussion
George Murillo – Vocals
Steve Reed – Drums
Dave Travis – Cello
Visit Carnage Asada online:
What other band can boast having members from Saccharine Trust, Black Flag, Sin 34, Alice Bag and the BellRays? Carnage Asada are a punk rock supergroup…”
“Travis is…something of a sensei-like figure for local musical reprobates.”
– Brett Callwood, LA Weekly
“[Vocalist George Murrilo] sees things for what they are and tells it like it is…”
– Mike Villalobos, Flipside